What is takes to be great an affiliate marketer?

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Last week I came across this interesting article in Fortune on subject of what it takes to great.

Just picture this for a second, what does Tiger Wood and Warren Buffett have in common?
Natural talent or Enormous amount of dedicated hard work over many years.

Now I can almost hear you thinking, well research now shows that the lack of natural talent is irrelevant to great success. The secret? ...Painful and demanding practice and hard work.

Both Tiger and Warren are famed for their discipline and hours of practicing in driving range or hours spends on studying financial statement of potential investment.

I am sure you have heard of stories of many people work hard for decades without appoaching greatness or even getting significantly better. Now what is missing and researchers called this deliberate practice.

It's activity that explicitly intended to improve performance to reach the next level, feedback on results or actions and involves high degree of repetition.

For example : You probably know that simply hitting a bucket load of golf balls is not deliberate practice and which why most golfer can't get better at the game.

Now hitting a seven iron 200 times with the a goal of leaving the ball within 10 feet of the pins 90% of the time, continually observing the results and making appropriate adjustments and doing that for hours very day. Persistence discipline and consistency is important to be great at what you do in your chosen field.

Okay, you're probably wondering, what does this information mean to you in affiliate marketing?

Obviously, each and every day online, you're going to come up against another obstacle. It may be small - it may be big. Everyone in business has obstacles to overcome. I personally face obstacles online everyday.

That's just the way affiliate marketing business is... the road isn't always smooth or easy. There will always be some distractions as well and informations overload.

If you have the BIG picture in focus and apply the deliberate practice approach in implementing some of these proven tactics like PPC, JV, articles submission with a consistent action plan to test, monitor and evaluate results to achieve your desire outcomes.

Those that succeed in affiliate marketing business don't allow anything to stop them from moving forward toward their goals. Each day you’ll gain more and more momentum and those daily obstacles ultimately become easier and easier to overcome.

Internet Marketing Secret Singapore

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Last weekend, I attended two days seminar on Internet Marketing Secrets. This seminar focused on adsense and affiliate marketing.

On Day # 1

This event was concieved by my friend Stuart Tan, NLP and Internet Marketing trainer. In morning session, Stuart revealed the how to identify and research porfitable internet niche business.

He show the research methods to identify popular trends and target a niche business model to captilize on these trends.

Currently there are about 7 trends that are rocking the internet

Blogging
Social Networking, ie myspace.com
Directories
Video Sharing, ie youtube.com
Online Gaming
Podcasting
Infopreneurship

In world of keyword research, all searchers are broken down into 2 categories :
Browers - search 1 or 2 keywords
Buyers - serach 3 or more keywords

Also reseachers are broken down into two categories :
Smart
Not-so-smart

Smart reseachers when doing keyword research with nouns that are associated with proposition.
E.g. "PDA" versus "PDAs like" or "PDAs with" or "PDA unlike". By associating a proposition to nouns, you can pick specific demand and supply for the keyword.

Generating niches need not to be complex, simple ideas are often enough to starts.

Next speaker is Kevin Hui from HK, one world top web publisher. Recently he launched a video sharing site www.friendearth.com that achieved alexa ranking around 500+ in less than 3 weeks.

To be contuine

3 Quick Tips To Becoming An Instant Copywriting Genius

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I have read a lot materials on copywriting, at times I feel that I don't have the talents to be good copy writer. Well if you apply the 3 quick tips from Ewen, you definitely get you started in the right direction

"3 Quick Tips To Becoming An Instant Copywriting Genius" by Ewen Chia

Copywriting is the ONE skill that will turn words into cash, and it's really the one thing you must learn if you're thinking of selling anything at all.

From traditional direct mail and now to the internet, the power of words has already made millionaires out of ordinary folks like you and me!

Successful copywriters know this. That's why they charge exorbitant fees for their services, which will no doubt still be money well invested.

The good news is, you can have this power too. You can write your own sales- pulling copy everytime - if you know the 'tricks'.

Well read on and I'll reveal to you 3 jealously-guarded tips that can turn you into a copywriting genius quickly...

(1) Start A Sales Letter 'Swipe File'

Simply start collecting winning sales letters AND emails into a 'swipe file' that you can refer to for :

* Your own education

* As an 'idea generator' for your copy

* As inspiration and motivation

You'll find this 'swipe file' invaluable to writing your own killer copy. Successful copywriters literally swear by this method in creating awesome sales letters.

(2) Write As If You're Your Own Prospect

The real secret to copywriting genius is to get into your propect's mind and encourage action at will.

And the best way to do this is by becoming your prospects!

Write your copy from their view and put yourself in their shoes. Think like them and you'll build a subconscious rapport that wins them over.

Throughout your copy, ask questions they would ask.

Write from the heart and answer these questions.

Ask yourself too : "would YOU buy this product yourself if you're reading the copy you wrote?"

Identifying with your prospects must begin right from the headline down to the final P.S.

(3) Create The Achieved End Results

Here's a tip that works like crazy.

Create the actual OR perceived end results write at the beginning of your copy. Give specific details. Continue to emphasize these results and benefits throughout your letter.

Give a 'tangible' feel to what can be achieve IF they buy, and what they'll lose if they don't.

A simple example...

Don't write : "You'll receive unlimited traffic to your website everyday!"

So? What does that achieve?

Write instead : "Generate 1000% more traffic, subscribers AND sales with less than 5 minutes work!"

This shows the end results more clearly.

Copywriting's easy if you know the right techniques.

Apply the above 3 tips and you'll be improving your own copy quickly ... without spending hundreds of dollars or hours on copywriting courses or ebooks. Try it.
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Building Affiliate 'Super Sites' to Stand Out from the Crowd

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"Building Affiliate 'Super Sites' to Stand Out from the Crowd" by Ewen Chia

One mistake new affiliate marketers make time and again is thinking that their 'product' is the merchant's product.

While one can certainly view their business from this perspective, it puts you in the mindset of 'pushing the link', rather than building a relationship with potential customers.

Super successful affiliates understand that their job is not to sell, but to presell - and their real product is content.

Let's look at this from a customer's viewpoint to see why building a content-focused and interactive site is so powerful, and why this type of site can radically boost your commissions.

1. Shopping and Connecting

When the average shopper goes online, he or she is likely to have a list of trusted sites already in mind. This is particularly true for certain classes of products in the tangible goods marketplace.

However, there is a large pool of potential customers seeking information and doing research before they buy. These may be first-time internet shoppers - or they may fall into a special interest group and have a lot of comparision shopping to do before they make a decision.

These are the customers you can draw to your site with quality content.

But I would like to recommend you go one step beyond just linking up some articles or putting up a newsletter. Instead, build a site that creates a sense of community.

In other words, provide a place where people can connect with their interests and with each other. Why?

Simple: Any site that creates a sense of support is going to generate trust, spawn word-of-mouth referrals and attract repeat visitors. Your site becomes a 'hub' or 'authority' on a subject, making it an ideal 'jumping off point' in the buying process.

It's like shopping with friends. There's safety in numbers. There is also much more activity where ideas are shared freely. Not only that, a customer-focused, interactive site allows you to collect feedback and quickly adjust to the needs of your target market.

2. Designing a Community

Setting up this type of site is no more difficult than setting up a static content site - it just requires a little more advanced planning.

What you need:

- Structured content - Message board system - Newsletter - Multiple related affiliate products

This affiliate site model relies on having multiple products to promote within your niche. For example, let's say you've chosen "The South Beach Diet" as your niche.

In your profit model, you would have a selection of products like the following: a south beach diet e-book, a south beach diet recipes e-book, a recommended merchant for supplements or vitamins and so on.

Your content should be structured around beginning, intermediate and advanced topics related to the diet. Your newsletter content will cover these topics as well, but with an enhanced focused on recommended 'solutions', ie, your affiliate products. Of course, your affiliate links will be sprinkled throughout the online content as well.

Now, here's where a clever tactic comes in. You set up a message board for customers who have purchased your recommended products through your link. Their ability to create usernames and participate on the forum is dependent on them mailing you their receipt of purchase.

However, general sections of the forum remain open to all guest visitors for viewing. These sections should be focused discussions on user's success with the product(s).

Basically, what you've done is set up a 'user's group' for a product where one didn't exist previously.

This accomplishes several things. It allows your faithful visitors to do extended preselling for you, and create additional content on the fly. It creates an atmosphere of trust, but also allows the visitor to be subject to "peer influence" in the selling process, thus, taking the focus off of your site making sales behind the scenes.

3. The message board will give you access to reams of data: customer opinions and experience, their feelings about the products, what they're really looking for and a lot more. You can quickly adjust your offerings based on this feedback, as well as compile a super list of ideas for creating your own product - a product which meets and even exceeds their expectations, because you now know what they did and did not like about the competitor's products you just sold to them.

The type of site I just described to you is the same kind employed by most successful super-affiliates.

Of course, you can still do quite well just using a simple landing page and newsletter to promote one product. However, if you're looking to target one niche and plumb it to its depths, this expanded model is the one I recommend.

So, go ahead and set up some landing pages, start collecting leads and test the response you get for various niches.

When you hit on one that's hungry and hot, go ahead and move up from the one page-one product model and build an interactive, super-affliate hub. You'll soon find yourself dominating your niche, and able to reap the profits from a variety of product offerings!
About the Author

Ewen Chia's Free Secret Manual "Web Money Formula" Reveals How You Can Start Making Quick Cash Online In As Little As 7 Days...Even From Scratch! Click Now For Instant Download: http://www.InstantMarketingSecrets.com

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Affiliate Marketing : How To Write E-mail Messages For Phenomenal Results

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How To Write E-mail Messages For Phenomenal Results
By Ewen Chia

Would you be interested in getting 10 times better results from your current e-mail marketing campaigns?

While the above is a hypothetical figure, it sure got your attention didn’t it…

Though most successful marketers use e-mail marketing as an income-generator, only the ultra successful are truly maximizing their profits with it.

What sets them apart? And more importantly, how can you create profit-pulling solo e-mails that put thousands more into your bank account fast?

It’s no rocket science. You’ve basically got to get your readers excited and give them a reason to respond quickly.

There IS a simple formula to achieve this. It’s nothing revolutionary, in fact it’s…

..the same darn formula for writing good copy!

Look, if you want to experience increased sales from all your e-mail promotions, start writing your solos based on the age-old formula known as…

..AIDA!

The basics of copywriting must be applied anywhere words are used to gather responses, especially in your e-mails.

Here’s a quick look at how you can structure your messages using AIDA as a guide:

1. A - Attention

Create subject lines that get your e-mails opened. Think of this as the headline of your ad as any good copywriter would tell you.

Grab the attention of your rea.ders by using curosity, fear, happiness etc.

An example : “Have you heard about…”

Heard about what? They’ll want to find out…

Extend such attention-grabbers to the first sentence or paragraph of your message body to encourage further reading…

2. I - Interest

Once you’ve got their attention, it’s time to get them interested in your message.

An easy way to do this is to simply highlight or ‘create a problem’ they may be experiencing. This puts them on alert and peaks their interest.

For instance, you could highlight the pains of how getting hundreds of spams daily could affect their business, and how there’re no good solutions in sight…

3. D - Desire

The ‘desire’ section of your message is where you introduce your proposed ‘solution’ to the problem stated.

Fact is, people need solutions to problems. To be an ultra-successful e-mail marketer, your job is simply to give them what they want!

4. A - Action

Getting your rea.ders to take positive action, to act on your message, is probably the most important part of your entire campaign.

But a high response rate is only possible if you’ve created the flow of Attention, Interest and Desire successfully.

To encourage immediate action, you should tie a specific deadline or give ‘scarcity’ to the solution you’re offering. For example, a 40% discount for the next 2 days only. Let them know that if they miss this dea.dline, the discount would end and they would have to pay a higher price for the same solution.

Here's another tip to squeeze more mileage from all your e-mail promotions: http://tinyurl.com/2soof

Use the AIDA formula today in all your e-mail campaigns, you’ll love the phenomenal results and extra profits from doing so!

Copyright 2004 Ewen Chia

About The Author

Ewen Chia is a successful information publisher and Internet marketer who spits out marketing secrets with fiery passion! Learn how you can instantly get more traffic, sales and increase your profits by visting his various websites here:

http://www.Marketing-Make-Money.com

http://www.InstantMarketingSecrets.com

http://www.MarketingEbookReview.com

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7 Insider Tips To Joint Venture Success

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From these 7 real life experience tips to develop a joint venture success, two tips strike me the most : Tips # 1 - Leverage other resources and Tip # 2 - Treat your joint venture partners like customers with irsesistible offer.

"7 Insider Tips To Joint Venture Success" by Ewen Chia

Most marketers miss out on huge chunks of available profits by not doing enough joint ventures.

It's the easiest way to leverage on resources you wouldn't otherwise have.

There're probably two reasons why joint ventures are not used fully. These are the fear of work and fear of failure. But do you know, you've failed in the first place by having this mindset?

While I'm not here to preach, I do want to emphasize, no marketer is ever an island. You've got to leverage your time and resources with fellow marketers to improve yourself and to maximize your success.

The magic word here is leverage.

Leverage everything you do, including joint venture, which is one of the most powerful forms of leverage you can ever tap on.

Carry this mindset as you read the rest of this article and apply the 7 basic tips as revealed...

These are the things I learned from my own joint venture experiences and I want to share them with you. It's not just airy talk. I've done it.

For example, if you want to discover how I got 19 top marketers on my side for a product like "Resale Rights Secrets" http://ResaleRightsSecrets.com , keep your eyes to this article as mentioned.

If you're all set to create profitable joint ventures, here are the top 7 insider tips to get them going:

Tip 1: Be Sincere And Build Relationships

I live by the principle that basic courtesy and sincerity is a must in any relationship, especially with your joint venture partners.

Be sincere. Be courteous. Be honest.

Trust begets trust.

Don't look at your potential partner as just someone you can tap on, build the contact with sincerity and friendliness.

This way you can build a relationship to last a lifetime, as opposed to a one- time partnership.

Tip 2: Think Long-Term

This follows closely to the above setting of building relationships.

You can joint venture continuously whenever each one has a beneficial product or promotion. The key's to create joint ventures for life, not just once off.

Tip 3: Don't Give Up

I know it's disappointing when you don't get responses from potential joint ventures partners. But don't forsake the cause because of a few failures, you may never know when you hit the goldmine.

It's the same as looking for a job. While you won't get every interview you sent out for, getting the one good one is what's important.

Spread your eggs and just do it.Contact as many potential partners as you can and you'll surely get results.

Tip 4: Always Be On The Lookout For Opportunities

Another way to make joint ventures work for you is to participate in them instead. Like yourself, many marketers are also looking for partners to work with, the problem's where do you find them?

Forums. Forums are the absolute best places to network and seek like-minded people for potential joint ventures.

There's no advertising cost and you can be on the frontline of new opportunities simply by scanning forums in your niche.

Here's a list of high traffic marketing forums you can tap on: http://www.expage.com/hightrafficforums

Or simply join the internet marketers' inner circle group called the Warrior Forum. The exposure and benefits you can get from there are tremendous.

While it's a private forum, you can get a complimentary secret pass through "Money & Power: An Interview With Allen Says".

Allen's also the founder of the Warrior Forum and you can find him actively moderating the forum there too: http://InstantMarketingSecrets.com/moneypower/

Tip 5: Be Clear In Your Communication

When you're approaching potential joint venture partners, it's very important not to beat about the bush or sound overly hyped-up.

Tell them the basic proposal and what they can gain, and leave out the big details unless they request for more information.

The phrase "Short, Sweet And Simple" couldn't be more relevant here.

Tip 6: Be Different

In order to get profitable joint ventures set up, you need to be different.

This is especially true if you were to approach the big names. They get tons of joint venture proposals daily, and what's to make them accept yours?

Be different. Give them something others are not offering.

I really personalize my proposals and lay out the biggest benefits they can get…out of a one-time effort.

For example, one major benefit out of many I gave was master resale rights and 100% profits for "Resale Rights Secrets" http://ResaleRightsSecrets.com

No one was doing what I did, so it became unique.

Tip 7: Be Irresistible

The last thing I learned was the importance of packaging irresistible offers, even for joint ventures partners.

Treat them like the customer. Create irresistible deals to get the joint venture going. Provide a host of benefits and be responsive. Every one enjoys being treated well, especially valued joint venture partners.

Well I'll be rounding up here, hope you found these tips to be useful. Now go for those joint ventures!
About the Author

Ewen Chia is a successful information publisher and Internet marketer who spits out marketing secrets with fiery passion! Learn how you can instantly get more traffic, sales and increase your profits by visiting his various websites: http://www.Marketing-Make-Money.com http://www.InstantMarketingSecrets.com http://www.MarketingEbookReview.com

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How To Build Your Targeted List Instantly

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If you are online markerter long enough, you would have heard this saying the money is in your list. The next question is how to you build a list or targeted list. In this article, Ewen will reveal the 3 ways to build your list instantly


"How To Create Your Own Instant Opt-In List From Scratch!" by Ewen Chia

Yes it's absolutely true.

You can't make sustainable money online without your own opt-in lists to market to.

I won't go into the details here as it has probably been overdone already. You'll discover something much more important today -- how to build your list very quickly.

If you're interested in this topic, I'll reveal three extremely simple ways to create your own 'instant' opt-in lists from scratch…

(1) Just Buy Them

Think of this as an investment with an 'open ROI' where you can profit from over and over again.

This is literally the fastest way ever to create an opt-in list out of thin air.

You can promote whatever you want to this list as long as it's targeted and legal.

Open an account with co-registration services like:

Lead Factory http://InternetCashStreams.com/lf.htm List Media http://InternetCashStreams.com/lm.htm

Plug in an e-course etc. into your autoresponder and proceed to flood it with subscribers using the two services above.

You've just created the closest thing ever to automatic opt-in marketing with this technique.

(2) Use The Pay Per Click Search Engines

The Pay Per Click Search Engines offer a unique way to generate opt-in lists which you can't afford to ignore.

You've just got to send the traffic over to your opt-in page instead of an affiliate page etc. This builds your list rather quickly and the best part is the extreme targeted subscribers you'll receive from there (depending on how targeted your keyword selection is of course).

A good resource to check out to learn all about how you can use Pay Per Clicks profitably is "Pay Per Click Profits" at http:/ inyurl.com/3yexo

I also talk about this method with more details at "Mini Ebook Secrets" http://www.MiniEbook.com

(3) Traffic Programs

If you're using free traffic programs and NOT building a list with them, you're making a big mistake.

You can generate tons of leads purely from these traffic programs and generators found everywhere.

The secret's in creating an irresistible opt-in page promising more information to entice opt-ins. Once you start building this list, you've got to deliver on the initial promise, while cultivating and building a good relationship with them. The reward will be perpetual lifetime profits.

Excellent examples of proven traffic programs include:

Million Dollar Traffic http://InternetCashStreams.com/mdt.htm Traffic Swarm http://InternetCashStreams.com s.htm

You can generate a big list fast if you combine the above three methods together.

The next step would be to duplicate what you've done and spit out tons of targeted sub-lists to promote your different programs.

And yes….it is truly that simple.
About the Author

Ewen Chia is a successful information publisher and Internet marketer who spits out marketing secrets with fiery passion! Learn how you can instantly get more traffic, sales and increase your profits by visiting his various websites: http://www.Marketing-Make-Money.com http://www.InstantMarketingSecrets.com http://www.MarketingEbookReview.com

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